HELLO EVERY ONE OUT THERE. I WANT TO WISH YOU A VERY PEACEFUL NEW YEAR. I WISH FOR YOU ALL TO HAVE A BLESSED 2009!!!!
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND SWEET COMMENTS THIS PAST YEAR. I LOVE MY BLOG AND ALL MY FRIENDS, SINCE I HAVE FOUND BLOGGING I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO MY LIFE. SO I THANK YOU ALL FOR LETTING ME IN TO YOUR HUGE FAMILY. GOD BLESS.
HUGS;
ALAURA
Good evening to all my dear friends. Today was a very pretty day the sun was out and the wind was not too bad and the temp. was in the high 30s. So my Sweet Sister and my Baby Girl Heather, and her son and I went to the Mall to just walk and browse. So many sales going on. We had a very enjoyable time together. I should have remembered to take my camera with me. darn it..... oh well I will try to remember next time. Tomorrow I am going to take down my Christmas tree, some times I feel sad to take it down. but I do need to start painting again, and the tree is in my way. I have found a different Sage Green that I am painting on my upper walls. My sister is painting her bedroom that color, and I just fell in love with it. So I am going to use it for my family room. Now hubby does not know about the color change, I have two walls to repaint so that is not too bad. I will take before and after photos so you can see the difference. So please don't tell hubby ok it will be our little secret ok... shhhhh lol So now I will show you some Christmas photos just a few...
Here are my four sweet and pretty grand daughters oh and their new puppy brownie she is so cute. This was taken on Christmas Eve.
Such excitement when Mamaw says who wants to open up gifts.. Haylee did a dance for us how cute is that...
Family photo with our girls oh and Hubby. he he I love this one too. Poor Caileigh you can hardly see her in back.
Isobella try to figure out what is in her stocking. She was not too sure of it at first. It was like she was scared of it.
I don't think it bothered Gracie Bell too much. She just stuck her nose in it and found her treats. lol. They had fun digging in them.
This is my youngest grandchild Madison and her daddy. She is getting so big and walking all over now.
Zachary is Mamaws boy love his blue eyes. He is the older brother of Madison, they look so much a like they could be twins.
I hope you enjoyed looking at some family fun photos. I will be posting some others to share. I want to thank you all for the kind comments. My dear friends you are all the best ever. I love how every one is there of each other no matter the problem and that is so special. So again Thank You all. I hope and Pray that each and every one of you have a safe and happy New Year. God Bless;
Hugs;
Alaura
Good morning to all my dear sweet friends. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. How was your weather??? Ours was just awful, we had such high wind gusts. I was a little scared. Ti howled out all day and night. Yesterday when I got up I let out my babies and saw my wicker love seat tipped over. I was hoping it did not smash the glass table top. I was so relieved that it did not. I must make room in the shed for it before it gets any more bad weather. Hubby and I did venture out a bit on Saturday morning to get a few things for our New Years Party. We like to stay home where it is safe and warm.
Our family Christmas went so wonderful and great. Every one loved what they received from Santa Mom and Dad. lol; But I really must share what my Lovely Children gave to me and Hubby, it was such a sweet gift I was crying again. lol So I will show you now.
Ok not don't be scared it is just me with my big mouth open. lol After I saw what was in side, that is Regan helping out Mamaw Goddess, {that is what my grandkids call me I did not teach them that, our Late daughter April did, it is a long story I will share with you some day} anywhooooo she loves to help.
It is family portrait of them, I was so excited and touched that they would come together for such a beautiful gift. Heather is holding some Purple flowers, they represent April who is no longer with us, she Loved purple. I have been missing her alot this year, so this photo sure did help out.
Hubby's was a 5x7 black and white one for his desk at work, he just loved it, he even had some tears. I know it is hard to see the photo, but just click on the photo for a closer look, Baby Girl was taking the pictures and did not know how to use the close up.
By the way it is with my New Camera!!! I just love it, it takes the best photos ever. So now I can take more photos to share. We found it at Best Buy for 1o9.00. it was 189.98 so I think we got a great deal on it don't you..... We used the gift card that hubbys bosses gave him as a gift, so we used it to get a camera we only hd to use 10.00 of our own money. Pretty kool huh....
I have lots more to share with you, but will wait till tomorrow. I won't show them all don't want to bore you. lol I will only show the best of the best...... Well I hope you all enjoyed my Christmas gift photos as much as I did receiving them .
I want to Thank You all for the all the kind and sweet comments you left me, I have never had so many comments before, I was so excited when I saw how many had stopped by. What a great feeling I get when so many pay me a visit and leave comments, it makes me feel so Welcome and loved in the Blog World. I thank you for that...... So here's to you and my the Lord Bless you and your family..... God Bless;
Hugs;
Alaura
Well here it is Pink Saturday, I am happy to be back participating in all the pretty Pinkness. I love it when Saturday rolls around, I get my coffee and laptop sit on my comfy sofa and just look at all the pretty Pinkness out there in blog land. I have seen so my beautiful treasures that my blog friends are sharing.
Well what I am posting on is my two Pillow Shams, I finally finished them,,, yeaaaaaaaaa!!!!! they turned out pretty well if I do say so myself. lol.
Now normally you are to use a red for this some of you might know it as Red Work, well I love Red Work but I decided to use a pink and brown. I think the colors are very nice together. On one sham is a Rose pattern, and the other is Daisy pattern. I wanted them to have a subtle difference but share the same color and theme such as flowers, does that make sense.....
Close up of the Rose's
And a close up of the daisy's. Daisy's are my very very favorite flower. I have lots of other flowers that I like, but these I really really love.... To quote Sheila; can you love a daisy......... why yes you can..... lol;
And for my last Pretty Pink I have this very pretty Pink tea cup and saucer. The flowers sort of look like Poinsettia flower. So it is so perfect for Christmas I had some tea in it on Christmas Eve, it was so nice, hubby made a fire and all was cozy. ahhhhhhhh. oh sorry I sort of went off the track here,,,,, lol I am back now. Oh yes and the tea cup an saucer photo..... hang on. 
The saucer is just a pretty as the cup don't you think this is a very sweet tea cup..... I do.............. can you love a tea cup??????? hmmmm lets ask Sheila, so what do you think,,,,, can you???
Why of course you can... lol well I hope you all enjoyed my Pretty Pinkness. I have lots of great Christmas photos to share with all of my dear friends, but I will post them like a to be continued. So please keep stopping in so you can take a peek at my lovely and silly family.
I want to thank you all for stopping by to read about my life and family from day to day, the projects I am working on and things like that. It truly means the world to me, and when you leave a sweet comment that is the Cherry on top.... So thank you all and I hope each and every one of my Dear Friends a Blessed New Year.
God Bless;
Hugs;
Alaura
Good Afternoon and a Merry Christmas to all. Well this morning Hubby and I went out to do our last bit of Christmas shopping. My goodness the stores sure were busy, I wonder why.... hmmmm.. lol So at my house we are ready for Christmas day..... I think {wink} :] So today I am going to be wrapping and stuffing stockings. I am so happy that I am all done. In past years we have been known to be shopping on Christmas Eve. So we are a head of the game for once. I hope we stay that way. lol Now on my hubbys side of the family we are not having our Christmas until Jan. 3. She has so many of us that no one house could hold us all, so we all chip in and rent a space to have it, we have been doing this for quite a few yrs. now it has a kitchen large area for tables and for the kids to run and play. It works our just grand. So I have some time to get all those after Christmas sales for then. I am trying to make most of the gifts, I am doing pretty good with getting them done. I finished the Shams and Neck roll for my Daughter Chas, I have take photos of them but I can't show you all until after she gets them, she reads my blog. I love how they turned out. I hope you all like them.
Ok now on to my swap box.
My partner was Debra for hop hop jingle boo, don't you just love the name of the blog.... I love her blog she has some really amazing homemade pretties. So stop by and pay her a visit if you have not yet, you will love it. And way I just love all the pretties she sent me. She did a amazing job on making them and carefully wrapping them. Ok now for some photos.
This is what I saw when I opened the box and unwrapped one package, It is a altered art note book, I am going to use it for my new address book,, she did a great job making it, it is still wrapped in the cellophane.
Now when I opened this,,, well ladies let just say it took my breath away. The beautiful sparkly star it is of good size . I just had to hang it on the top under my Angle, it looks so pretty up there.
Debra also sent me a vintage Santa Post card standing in the back he is so cute don't you think...... And she printed out some very cute and sweet vintage clip art, I just love them, I am going to use some for scrapbooking and maybe some cards..
This is a close up of the Star hanging on my Christmas Tree, she looks so lovely up there watching over every thing. So I hope you all enjoyed my Swap Box goodies from Debra. I am have had such a wonderful time being apart of the two Christmas Swap's and meeting two new friends. So thank you for stopping and taking time out of you very busy day to visit me. You have no idea how much it means to me.. and it means alot.
I want to thank you all so very much for you very sweet and kind comments. Each and every one of you who visit from time to time I really do think of you as my family and friends.
My Christmas Prayer is for each of you and your family's to have a very safe. warm. and a Loving time with you family and friends this Christmas season. My the Lord watch over you all and Bless you... For that is my Prayer for you all.....
Now this is going to be my last post for I need to take time now for my family and friends during this time. I will be back to posting and reading all you lovely blogs and posts. See you next year dear friends. God Bless.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs;
Alaura ho ho ho
I am very sorry for the huge mistake I made by posting your last names. I am so new at this that I really did not know not to do that, just now my hubby really let me have it, telling me what I NEVER put in my blog. I feel really bad and hope I have not upset any of you very much, it was a honest mistake that I will not let happen again. I hope I am not kicked out of the family of blog land...... :{ And that I did not see the wrong I did until now, I have removed them, I was not able to get on line until now, I know that is no excuse by any means what so ever.
So again I am so sorry for the huge oops and I hope you all can forgive me.... God Bless;
Hugs;
Alaura
Well today is the day we all show our Christmas Cards and little goodies that were inside. The Swap was hosted by Jan, from Jan and Toms Place. I want to thank you Jan for hosting such a wonderful swap. I had a great time with this one. One of the traditions I love to keep for Christmas is sending out Cards. I try to get them out early in the month so everyone gets them on time. So when Jan did a post about the swap, I jumped right in, it gave me more of a opportunity to meet new blog friends and share in the Christmas joy. I had list of 10 that I was to send out.
So here are the dear friends I was lucky enough to send cards to them, and in turn receive one from them.
Angela; from shopannies
Shelia; from notesongs
Laura; from ourscentedcottage
Ceekay; from thinkinofhome
Barbara; from cinnamongirl93
Negan; fromwanderingdc
Kathy; from mimisgarden
Joy; from joytotheblog
Sheila; from the quintessentialmagpie
Jan; from janandtoms place
I suppose I could have done a better job at showing all my beautiful Christmas Cards. So I hope you can see the one some of you have sent me. I took a photo of the great little gifts that were inside.
I just love all the pretties I found in side the cards, not the Joy to the World in the back was not in the swap, I won that in a drawing, but I could not help my self it is just to Christmas looking. So sorry about that. lol
I added more Cards to the wall, some are form family and some are for other blog friends. I want to thank each of you for sending such beautiful cards and the small gift. I just love being in Swaps, they are great fun and getting to meet new ladies and new blogs to visit, I have so many to visit and read it takes me two or three days to get to every one. lol And I do make it to them and leave a comment, I keep finding more too, through others blogs and who they visit. My list is getting pretty long. lol How do you do it, so no one feels left out all the time, I hate to do that and make some one feel like I don't care to visit, so if any of you have any suggestions please pass them on........ I hope you all enjoyed looking at all my lovely Christmas Cards. Stop by Jan and see more Christmas Card Swap photos. Have a great weekend every one. God Bless
Hugs;
Alaura
